Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again after the ...

A trailblazing force and fierce advocate in Chicago’s theater scene has died. Broadway in Chicago announced Sunday that Margie Korshak, a leading publicist in the city for over ...

Over about a month in 1976, Piailug guided the Hokulea from Hawaii to Tahiti — about the same distance from Hawaii to ...

Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a “new world order” gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Bach ...

Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 — have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Reporters, family members of Sigmon’s victims and his lawyer ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93.

When the clock strikes 6 Friday evening, a South Carolina man will walk into the death chamber, be strapped into a chair and have a target placed over his heart. He may utter ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died on Thursday ...